IN JUNE AND JULY 1992 David Irving retrieved from
the former Soviet secret state archives in Moscow missing
sections of the Goebbels Diaries. Arguing that the resulting
biography Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reichwas
antisemitic, although they had not seen it, the New
York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
intimidated Mr Irving's US publishers St
Martins Press and Doubleday, who had nominated it their
Book of the Month for May 1996, with a campaign of threats,
partly organised anonymously on the Internet.

The American publishers panicked and halted production
only days before the publication date, as related
elsewhere on this site. The ADL currently brags
of its achievement.

Mr Irving transcribed many of the glass microfiches. As
it is unlikely that the German government or the Munich
Institut für Zeitgeschichte will publish the
handwritten texts which they obtained from Moscow for many
years yet, he intends to post his transcription of these
periods, particularly 1934, on this Website for the
common usage. He has published the entire 1938 volume
of Goebbels' diaries in an annotated and edited German
edition, Der unbekannte Dr Goebbels [available
from Focal Point ].

He welcomes comments and corrections to his
transcriptions (though be warned: many of the mis-spellings
like tuen, parlaver, Heyderich etc are by Goebbels
himself).

As a memorial to his
oldest daughter Josephine (1963-1999), David Irving
invites you to accept his biography of Hitler's
propaganda minister Dr Joseph Goebbels, the first
work to be based on the long-lost diaries of the
minister which he retrieved from the former KGB
archives in Moscow.

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The Diaries and Papers of
Dr Joseph Goebbels

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Witness statements of Russian archivists and others
relating to Deborah Lipstadt's allegation that Mr Irving
stole or damaged the microfiches